Britain's 50 best gastropubs 2017

A former drovers’ inn, The Rat has the feel of a place where pork pie and pickled onions should be on the menu. The interior is all dark beams, flagstone floors, pine tables and classic pub knick-knacks: shelves lined with tankards and chamber pots hanging from the ceiling. But for all its olde-worlde trappings, it is, in fact, a thoroughly modern beast, a gastropub from nose to tail.